Benefits of collaborative online learning (Ukrainian language as a foreign)

Abstract

It was noted that over few decades much attention has been paid to the use of Advanced Information and Communication Technologies and essential role of Internet.There appears to be a strong argument for increased amount of the newest ways, methods and technologies improving of the approaches of the present-day educational system. The authors concentrate their attention on the Online Collaborative Learning. This paper focuses on the using of various information and communication technologies. The advantages of pedagogical innovation in comparison with traditional methods of presenting educational information have been pointed out. The authors focus their attention on the importance of using innovative forms, didactic methods, techniques and resources. Researchers gave us the definition of Online Collaborative Learning and proved that such activities can be easily used in the classrooms with much success. It noted the benefits presented by systematic recourse to Online Collaborative Learning, and the reasonable ways of their using as the assessment tools in the contest of language learning. The need, specificity and rationality of using of Online Collaborative Learning as an innovative approach to teaching and learning, which provides academics and students with the ability to communicate and collaborate with peers internationally through online for teaching Ukrainian language as foreign in higher medical educational institutions have been shown. One of the possible ways to provide collaboration work is through the using of computer-supported collaborative design structures or web-based tools and basic collaborative strategies have been presented as one of the possible and efficient ways to provide collaboration work. The paper concludes with an opinion that collaborative learning is now proved as one of the most modern method of learning. It is beneficial as a knowledge-sharing tool that involves students teaching one another in a group setting, builds student performance and progression, helps student develop their communicative and social skills. At the same time it is especially helpful in motivating students in specific curriculum.